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in proportion to its breadth than that of most other trees, may be another reasonwhy it offers a firmer resistance to storms. Notwithstanding this, terrible de-vastation has sometimes been effected among oak trees by the wind; and oneof the most fearful instances occurred in October, 1831, when a destructivehurricane ravaged a considerable portion of the park of Thorndon Hall, theseat of Lord Petre, near Brentwood. The following account is abridged fromthat sent to the Magazine of Natural History by J.G. Strutt, Esq. :•—“The blastcame on about eight o’clock, and in less than four minutes the work of havocwas completed. The wind came from the south-west, and entered the parknear the Lion’s Lodge, where it threw down a small portion of the paling.It then traversed the park in a varying sweep of about ISO yards’ breadth.Near the lodge, several oaks, 60 ft. high, were torn up by the roots, withadhering masses of earth, 14 ft. in length, and from 3 ft. to 4 ft. in thickness.

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